The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-02-04
INTEREST IN THE ENTERPRISE AROUSED.

The meeting at Darlington, last Friday, 10 fur
ther the interests of the Deer Creek and Susque-
hanna Railroad. was well attended, considering
Mr.. Johns H. Janney was called to the chair
and w. Beatty Harlan appointed Secretary.
Mr.. Janney made statement Of the object OF
the meeting. He said those present were well
acquainted with what had been already done in
this movement. The present meeting had been
Die in and about Darlington, who were so vital
Iy Interested In the success of the railroad. The
time had now come to act. He wanted every
railroad would be 10 the community and TO free
ly express himself and then to determine each
for himself how much he could afford to pay to
get a railroad and before he left 10 put 10 down
on the subscription book. He recalled to their
minds the previous attempts to get q railroad
through that section and reminded them that
each failure made the next movement harder to
inaugurate. II they wanted q railroad they
must act now. for IL this movement, which has
been inaugurated under such favorable circum-
stances and has been so theoretically carried
on fails. they could not expect to see a railroad
through that section for many years.
Mr.. Edward c. Price, the solicitor for the road,
reported the progress of his work. He said he
found the people every where interested in the
scribe something towards 1t, but the subscrip-
tions were small. People were not awake to the
value in dollars and cents this railroad would
have for them. If they wanted to build barn
or make any other improvement upon their
property they would not hesitate to borrow
that they should borrow money IL necessary to
subscribe to the railroad, they would not listen
TO such a suggestion, while the truth is, and
they could make for the same amount of money
would so increase the actual market value of
their property or Its productive capacity meas
ured In dollars and cents as a railroad.
The chairman then called upon many of those
present and they all responded with earnest and
prise and many Illustrations of the advantages
railroad confers upon the section through which
1t passes. Remarks were made In response to
IN nhatP rna M pal nv II
son, W. Beatty Harlan. BENJAMIN Silver. Jr-
Joshua G. Smith, Rey. z; A. Colburn, DR.. J. L.
Windolph, VIM. II. Ii. whiteford, George jew
EFT, Joshua Husband Jr., Geo. L. Scott, DIR.
David Harlan, George E. Silver, Thomas A.
Hays. DR.. John Sappington, James Il. Massey,
Preston, Christopher Wilson and others.
Mr. Jewett spoke most earnestly of the need
of railroad for this section. He called atten-
t0n to S the fact that millions Of money were
enterprises that had no such substantial foun-
dation as this. There they build railroad into
where they can hear the whistle Of the Iocomo-
tive. He said we were near to the great city of
Baltimore, only little further from Philadel-
phia, tho second city in the Union. and not far
from New York, the metropolis of the conti-
nent, and yet journey to either of them re-
quires a laborious and tortuous journey. This
seriously hampers all business or commercial
intercourse with these great cities. In the
present condition OF affairs this section loses
much OF the advantage that proximity to such
commercial centres gives 1t and many town
hundreds of miles away has easier communica-
ton with these great commercial centres than
Darlington. He added that having been in al
most every State of the Union he could say
W thout reserve that our county was unsurpass-
ed for natural beauty and that II this enterprise
were carried through, in addition to the cattle
upon thousand hills we would have castle
upon every hill, where the wealth OF Baltimore
would seek retreat from the crowded city, and
the beautiful building sites around us on every
band would sell for as much as whole farms do
now, besides furnishing home market for the
produce of the rest of the farm.
Besides those mentioned there were present
DIR. W. 8. Forwood, Messrs. b. Gilpin Smith. N.
N. Smith, Cortauld Wharton Smith, Joseph
Edge, @. Y. Thomas, E. ]. Tucker, Henry Har-
Ian, A. 8. Holloway, W. r.. Holloway Samuel
Holloway, Y. ]. Hopkins, Horace Stokes, Thos.
a. Hays, e. NJ. Allen, Jr., ]. 8. Gorrell. G. t.
Milton, Thomas G: HoPsins, John ". ANDREW,
hins, Joseph Hopkins, Of r., hev; E. W. Wroth,
Charles II. Andrew, d. j. Williams, David &.
Price, j.. Fred Crew, John Lamb, Charles stand-
kins, W. T. Ely, VIM; wynde, Charles A. Hollo-
way, H. X. Waters, Samuel N. Matthews. A. +.
Galbreath, II. e. Prigg, Edward Shure, WIN. L.
Easter and George II. Gorrell.